What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[aveyond-dreams]

You can oneshot Yu Yevon. Orphan is weak to Death. Cid Aulstyne is a cakewalk you just melt. Meteion isn't the most egregious case.

I don't understand what you mean by "little stakes".
Do you mean the Final Days? Sure, that played out weaker than needed, but we did see the effects of it first-hand.
Do you mean her fight having no consequence should you fail? Because lorewise, if you had, the whole universe was screwed. And gameplaywise... I mean, it's an MMO, she's meant to be beatable. It's a foregone conclusion we'll win every time.

Plus, wasn't the point of her being "straightforward" mentioned by Zenos himself? "You've faced worse than letting something like 'despair' get in your way." Dread and terror are real, life is scary. But at that point Zenos was saying "this isn't the embodiment of hate, she's just an emo girl having a tantrum. I've caused dread and terror, and at some points, people stood up in defiance with hope in their eyes. You validated their hopes. What she does is cheap."

Yu Yevon is indeed the final boss of FFX. Not like we killed our own Aeons just prior to facing him, which as a Summoner was quite a moment for me, or when we killed Jecht as Braska's Final Aeon in a fight that when I experienced it was quite difficult. Orphan may be weak to Death but with the spell having a 1% chance you still have to follow basic game mechanics of staggering him. I won't speak on Cid as I've not beaten FF Type-0 myself.

Nevertheless, tension, stress. These are things that are ok to have in a final boss fight. It is ok for them to be somewhat challenging and in this case required a group effort with everyone knowing their job and what they should be doing. By the time we fight her after the fakeout segment of Ultima Thule it basically washes away all the momentum that was built up on the Source from dealing with the Final Days, which was helped in part by the atrocious second visit to Labyrinthos.

[RyuDragnier]

The fight against the Endsinger was as bland as it was easy. Chaos with very little stakes or penalties for screwing up. Some final boss alright, one that insults FFIV.

Do EX, that is the fight you definitely want then.